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  • Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century

    Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Social History Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2004 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2004.0144 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and…

  • The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance

    The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance Temple University Press November 2002 256 pages Cloth EAN: 978-1-56639-981-4, ISBN: 1-56639-981-5 Paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-982-1, ISBN: 1-56639-982-3 Steve Martinot, Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University A significant re-writing of the history of class formation in the US An important history of the way class formed in the US,…

  • Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective

    Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective Perspectives Winter 2003 pages 48-58 Ikeita Cantú Hinojosa, JD, MSW National Women’s Law Center, Washington, D.C The census classification scheme chosen for race and ethnicity has become a prominent social fact in its own right and involves serious political and cultural consequences beyond its explicit policy…

  • Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture

    Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture The Bellingham Herald 2009-09-28 Dean Kahn Louie Gong grew up eating American Indian bread for breakfast and Chinese dinners cooked on a camp stove. In the evening, his Chinese and native relatives got together for mah-jongg. Gong’s mother was of French and Scottish descent. His father was half Chinese,…

  • ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion

    ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion Portland State University 228 Smith Union Wednesday, 2010-03-03, from 18:30-21:00 PST (Local Time) This new documentary explores the social and political impact of adding a Multiracial Category (the fastest growing demographic in America) as a stand-alone racial group on the US Census. Different racial and cultural groups see multiracialism…

  • Multiracial Politics or the Politics of Being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in a Contemporary Society

    Multiracial Politics or the Politics of Being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in a Contemporary Society Jungmiwha Bullock University of Southern California This dissertation is an interdisciplinary, multi-method, and multi-site project that investigates where race as a social construction and outdated biological explanations of race contradict in the twenty-first century, using grassroots…

  • The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica

    The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 (originally published in 1925) 160 pages Paperback: 9780801856556 José Vasconcelos translated, with an introduction, by Didier T. Jaén afterword by Joseba Gabilondo “The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having…

  • The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos: “La Raza Cósmica” and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity

    The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos: “La Raza Cósmica” and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity suite101.com 2010-01-26 Melanie Zoltan, Adjunct Professor of History Bay Path College In “The Cosmic Race” (“La Raza Cósmica” in Spanish), José Vasconcelos argues that racial diversity and interbreeding will produce one superior race. Is it code for purity? While…

  • Engineering American society: the lesson of eugenics

    Engineering American society: the lesson of eugenics Nature Reviews Genetics Volume 1, November 2000 pages 153-158 David Micklos DNA Learning Centre Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Elof Carlson, Professor Emeritus State University of New York, Stony Brook We stand at the threshold of a new century, with the whole human genome stretched out before…

  • Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn’t have full control over her story

    Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn’t have full control over her story Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-02-14 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University After 78 years of harboring a less than well-kept secret, Essie Mae Washington-Williams…